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 1. It is known to you that by the ancient constitution of the Government of Carnatic you held possession of your Zemindari subject to the payment of an annual Peishcush, to the discharge of military service and to the payment of Nuzzers and fines, that the amount of Peishcush and the extent of the military service were undefined, and that the amounts of the contribution or Nuzzers was determinable according to the pleasure and enforced according to the power of the Nawabs of Carnatic. It is also known to you that the Peishcush paid by you was never augmented nor the usual Nuzzers exacted from you during the time when the administration of the Carnatic has been brought under the management of the British Government, that with the view of perpetuating to you the secure possession and enjoyment of your lands it was provided by treaty between the British Government and His late Highness the Nawab of the Carnatic, Mahamad Ali bearing date the